Cajanus.} LEGUMINOSAE. 107 
bidentate, the lowest narrowest and longest. Flowers large as in no, 2; 
the keel arched, a than the wings. Ovary hairy. Style incurved 
and - hirsut Pod linear, narrow, only 2“ wide by 2‘ in 
length, caine ie Hate the thin valves twisted after opening. Seeds 
oblong-angular to kidney-shaped, almost black, shining, 2 in length, 
with a short hilum. — Gray, ]. c. p. 450. — Mann, 1. ec. p. 62. — V. villosa, 
Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beec Bly 
@ Oahu, Makaleha of the Kaala lead Kauai! (Kn.). 
. DOLICHOS, L. 
‘alyx campanulate, with short teeth, the 2 upper déeeth united. Standard 
orbicular, auricled at the base, bicallose in front. Wings adherent to 
hich is much incurved and often beaked, but not twisted. 
Upper stamen free; anthers uniform. Ovary many-ovuled. Style onal 
above, with a longitudinal line or a tuft of hairs below the terminal 
stigma. Pod falciform or straight, compressed, fill etween oh seeds, 
2-valyed, the sutures often thickened. Seeds compressed, with a short 
rhaphe. — Prostrate or twining herbs or undershrubs. Leaves pinnately 
trifoliolate, with an tipellae. Flowers pees single or fascicled in the 
axils of leaves, or along the nodes of an peduncle, — yellow- 
ish or white. Bracteoles striate, usually coal and caducou 
A genus of the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia, with a few species in 8. America, 
71. D. Lablab, ZL. spec. 1019. — A stout twining perennial, glabrous. 
Leaflets broadly triangular-ovate, 2!/2—4‘ long and nearly as broad, the 
ecenl ones rhomboidal, obtuse or acuminate, more or less truncate at 
Flowers vactinosely fascicled along a stout rhachis, white or 
sires 6—7" long, on short pedicels; the~bracteoles obovate, as 
long as the calyx, or nearly so. Lower calyx-lobes broad, acute, the upper 
one obtuse. Keel beaked. Pod falciform, 3—4‘ long and 1’ or less eine 
eam with an oblique or recurved point and somewhat m 
argins. Seeds 4 or less, 5—6” long, ee 7 a the thick apne 
enn two thirds the length of their diameter. — Mart. Fl. Bras. 24, 
tab. 51. — Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. p. 196. — Lablab sehen Savi. — DC. Prod. 
, 401 
Of early introduction, originally cultivated for its beans, but now wide 
over all islands. — A native of tropical Asia, but carried into most tropical plier 
18. CAJANUS, DC. 
Calyx campanulate, 4-toothed or lobed, the upper lobe 2-toothed. 
Standard orbicular, with inflexed auricles at the base and 2 callosities 
inside above the sii Wings and keel of nearly the same length, the 
latter straight, obtuse. Upper stamen free from the base. Ovary with 
several ovules. Style eceaied above the middle; stigma terminal, oblique. 
